Exercises for dive into python

[Ben Edwards (lists)]

On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 16:39 +0000, Tal Einat wrote:
> Ben Edwards (lists <lists <at> videonetwork.org> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Have been working through Dive Into Python which is excellent.  My only
> > problem is that there are not exercises.  I find exercises are a great
> > way of helping stuff sink in and verifying my learning.  Has anyone done
> > such a thing?
> > 
> > Ben
> > 
> 
> 
> I recently gave a Python crash-course in my company, and ran into the same
> problem. There are many good Python tutorials, manuals, references etc., most
> are accompannied by various code examples, but there are very few exercises. I
> had a hard time collecting and inventing a few good exercises, about 12 in all.
> 
> There are probably some good exercises out there, but they seem to be relatviely
> hard to find. Maybe they should be collected and organized at Python.org?

That sounds like an exelent idea.  Maybe the way to structure it is my
book/chapter. 

> 
> I think building a large collection of good Python exercises could help both
> those teaching Python and those learning it. Also, gathering a set of Python
> exercises for those learning general programming concepts (variables, functions,
> object-oriented, etc.) could help spread the use of Python for teaching
> programming.

I think there is little doubt about this.  The reason I liked the
'Thinking in Java' book was it had 10 exercises at the end of each
chapter.  I would not more onto a chapter until I had completed them
all.

Ben

> 
> - Tal
>